St. Patrick’s Day— A lucky night for gallery openings. Berry Campbell has some visually arresting artwork from Raymond Hendler, an action painter who died in 1998. Very graphic and very cool artwork from the 1970’s, a very collectible era. T.J. Wilcox has an amazing show of cloudscapes that are
worth checking out at Gladstone Gallery across the street, could be a very mesmerizing night indeed. Check it out!
Claudette Schreuders
Note to Self
Jack Shainman Gallery
Cool show of carved busts that are autobiographical and curious in their squatness. In the back room the artist is surrounded by her influencers, busts of family and people who inspire her. Very personal show and a very unique voice. Check it out through March 12, 2016
Jonathan Lasker
Cheim & Read
Paintings and works on paper representing work from 2013-2015. Amazing work about the act of looking, pulling you into the experience of seeing, not necessarily what the content of the image is. The work is mesmerizing and has a very computerized feel as well as a crazy thickness of paint that feels surreal as if you are looking at the embroidery on the blouse of god. Pec-uliar. Check it out through February 13, 2016.
Gregory Crewdson @Gagosian — Cathedral of the pines, his latest set of images to be shown took 4 years in the making and 2 years of post-production which makes for an intense image maker. This show was big, loud and crowded, everyone naked and revealing themselves to the dark nature of real life. Open through 3-15-16. Check it out!
Group Show
Guest Curated by Noah Becker
Presents…Something
Berry Campbell Gallery
Great show with a huge turnout. Nice wide variety of art making displayed here. Everything feels super modern and in the moment, collage, squeched paintings, sculpture, and super thick paintings. Great show check it out through February 16, 2016
David Mann
Sympathetic Strings
Margret Thatcher Projects
Abstract paintings that have a great deal of layers based on the idea of Sympathetic Strings, or strings that lie below other strings that aren’t plucked but still resonate the sound. Visually powerful and emanatic with a centrifical force.
New Year, New Openings! — Time to warm up with some new art and new art openings. Great group show by guest curator Noah Becker at Berry Campbell. Across the street Penelope Umbrico (an artist best known for appropriating images found on the Internet) has a cool show at Bruce Silverstein featuring cool photos of Grand Central and over a million shots of the moon from flickr that she made screen shots from. Internetistas will be there. Check it out!
Cary Smith
Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
Such a cool show, so hard edged and graphic. the visuals just jump off the wall. It is so hard to get minimalistic visuals to make sense and to be balanced and in proportion. Check this show out and buy something!
Summer Break Party—Check out the closing party at Mike Weiss Gallery featuring the real, super flat, yet 3D artwork of Michael Zelehoski. The work
is cool and the party will be cooler. Danziger has the Yale 2015 MFA show—a chance to see the new up and comers in the world of fine-art photography. Check it out!
Kim Gordon
The City is a Garden
303 Gallery
It’s always so interesting when artists dive into other reals than what you know them for. Kim Gordon from Sonic youth has a new show up at 303 Gallery, which looks very ephemeral and light and floaty, seemingly lacking any there-ness, but when you look at the crumpled up paintings on the floor, they really have a lot of graphic power and strength. These is a very interesting way of taking painting into a sculptural realm, I don’t hear the music but my eyes are glowing with happiness. Check out the show through July 24, 2015.